The Seeing I

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Looking at our former selves, caught in a short moment by the unblinking eye of the camera, who is it we encounter?

Digital prints; drum leaf binding; 9cmW x 17cmH; 10 pages

An offshoot of my "three generations" project, using family photos.

Degree show, September 2012

Includes "The Blue Distance" and a selection of "memory balls", and can be found here; "The Little Library of Endless Forgetting" is here.

Ghost Children

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Simplified images of children taken from family photos.
Ink and wax (batik)

One of a series of "ribbon books".

3.5cmW x 17cmH

http://margaret-cooter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/book-du-jour.html

Split Sonnets

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Part of a project to visualise ways of memorising poetry.

http://margaret-cooter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fun-with-sonnets.html

Locked in Memory I

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The long words and flowery phrases may seem the most important parts of language, but they can be difficult to retrieve.

One of the "memory balls" that were part of my MA show.


Locked in Memory II

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The short words in the language are the ones that do the hard work.

One of the "memory balls" that were part of my MA show.